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Since its opening, in December 1998, the Museum of art and history of the Judaism publishes regularly works which you can find to the bookshop of the museum or order by telephone by composing the 01 53 01 86 49 or by mail (librairie@mahj.org)

Correspondence Paul Celan – Gisèle Lestrange

Being published by Alain Badiou with the cooperation of Eric Celan

Paris, Le Seuil, on 2001

2 volumes

420,00 FFR / 64,03 EUR

Paul Celan's moving relation and his wife Gisèle Delestrange through their correspondence between 1951 and 1970. The set(group) is widely informed and accompanied with numerous illustrations.

Lettres de Gertrud Kolmar

Christian Bourgois, 2001

317 p.
140,00 F / 21,34 Euros

The letters which Gertrud Kolmar wrote to her sister, taken refuge in Switzerland, since Nazi Berlin where she will live until her deportation in 1943. A deeply moving testimony of this big poet.

Séfarades et Juifs d’ailleurs

Gérard Silvain

Adam Biro, 2001
543 p.
245,00 F / 37,35 Euros

In the style of a photo report, former(old) three hundred picture postcards (from 1895 till 1945) present the Jewish communities which one groups together(includes) under the name of Sephardis, but are also they of the oriental world, Italy in China.

Récits d’Ellis Island : histoires d’errance et d’espoir

Georges Perec / Robert Bober

P.O.L., 1994
159 p.
195,00 F / 29,72 Euros

A description of what stayed of this island off New York, what was a long time the sieve of entrance(entry) for all the immigrants from Europe. Through the testimonies of those that are there past, are approached in particular the subjects of the dispersal and the identity. The work forms a counterpart in the film which Perec and Bober realized in 1979.

1979.

Didier Ben Loulou

Jacques Py's text

Editions Joca Seria,
105 p.
145,00 F / 22,10 Euros

A rich presentation of the Didier Ben Loulou's photographic work realized in Jerusalem, accompanied with a Jacques Py's very relevant text. To deepen(fathom) the knowledge of this artist exposed(explained) at present to the museum

Les Juifs et le XXe siècle Dictionnaire critique

Elie Barnavi / Saul Friedländer

Calmann-Lévy, 2000
815 p.
450,00 F / 68,60 Euros

Forty nine international specialists expose(explain) the implication of the Jews in the history of the twentieth century, since the Russian pogroms of 1881 until turnover led(inferred) by the fall of the wall of Berlin.

Le pianiste

The extraordinary fate of a Jewish musician in the ghetto of Warsaw 1939-1945, story

Wladyslaw Szpilman

Traduit de l’anglais par Bernard Cohen
Robert Laffont, 2001
267 p.
119,00 F / 18,14 Euros

The extraordinary fate of a Jewish musician of Warsaw, who will have lived everything - and survived everything: the ghetto, the extermination of his family...